Re: [lisp] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7052 (4256)

Brian Haberman <brian@innovationslab.net> Fri, 06 February 2015 15:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [lisp] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7052 (4256)
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Isidor,

On 2/6/15 10:19 AM, Isidoros Kouvelas (kouvelas) wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> I am not sure what the minimum length of 5 could correspond to given
> the minimum length of an IPv4 address will be 8 octets (including two
> for AFI, one for the internal length field and one for the mask
> length). So I would be interested in the discussion context you refer
> to.

It turns out that the discussion during review was with the upper limit.
I can't find any reference to discussions on the lower limit.  Authors?

> 
> Regarding the unspecified address specification I think that making
> it explicit (zero length) would be cleaner than encoding a special
> address. To limit the number of changes to the MIB we could only fix
> the LispAddressType octet string definition as well as
> lispEidRegistrationLastRegisterSenderLength.
> 
> Regarding the example below, the normal case is that all EID prefixes
> are configured on the Map-Server and then registered by the xTRs.
> Reporting the MS as the RegisterSender of the EID prefixes that have
> not been registered would not work.

So, is your suggestion to change the lower limit on the TC and the lower
limit for just the lispEidRegistrationLastRegisterSenderLength?

I would still like some input from others in the WG on this issue.

Regards,
Brian